Shared mooring systems for offshore floating wind farms: A review

作     者：Hang Xu Shengjie Rui Kanmin Shen Liangliang Jiang Haojie Zhang Long Teng 

作者机构：Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Offshore Geotechnics and MaterialCollege of Civil Engineering and ArchitectureZhejiang UniversityHangzhou310058China Norwegian Geotechnical InstituteSandakerveien 140Oslo0484Norway PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation LimitedHangzhou311122China Department of Chemical and Petroleum EngineeringThe University of CalgaryCalgaryAlbertaCanada 

出 版 物：《Energy Reviews》 (能源评论（英文）)

年 卷 期：2024年第3卷第1期

页      面：76-89页

学科分类：08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 

基　　金：the financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52101334) the European Commission(HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01,101108745) the Research Council of Norway(SFI BLUES project,309281) the Open Fund from Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Offshore Geotechnics and Material(OGME21003,OGME22001) 

主　　题：Floating offshore wind turbines Wind farm Shared mooring Shared anchor Renewable energy 

摘      要：Offshore wind energy,as a form of renewable power,has seen rapid development in recent *** fixedbottom wind turbines are typically used in water depths less than 50 m,the utilization of floating offshore wind turbines(FOWTs)becomes essential for deeper *** and effective mooring systems play a crucial role in making FOWTs commercially *** concept of a shared mooring system offers an innovative solution for deploying floating wind farms in clusters or arrays,which can reduce overall construction costs for large-scale floating wind *** is imperative to optimize the shared mooring arrangement for maximum cost-effectiveness and wind farm ***,implementing a shared mooring system introduces complexity to the dynamics of FOWTs,requiring the development of advanced simulation tools to meet modelling *** the shared mooring arrangement,mooring lines and anchors face more significant challenges,such as chain-seabed interactions,soil cyclic weakening,and anchor out-of-plane loading,which underscore the need for innovative,reliable,and efficient shared anchor *** article offers an overview of the current research status on shared mooring systems for floating wind farms,which might serve as a valuable reference for the construction of large-scale floating wind farms worldwide.